A Quarter Of Jobs In America Pay Below The Federal Poverty Line…”At least, until the welfare funding runs out. Then things get really ugly.”

Over two years ago (and reiterated last year) Zero Hedge first wrote on what was and is an undisputed transition within the US labor force: a shift from full-time to temp, or part-time labor, with virtually no contractual or welfare benefits, and where workers are lucky to get minimum wage. This is because in the “New Normal” where copious amounts of structural slack are pervasive due precisely to the Fed’s constant flawed micromanagement of the economy, the US has now become an “employers’ market.” Furthermore, we were the first to make the critical distinction that it is absolutely not all about the quantity of jobs, but much more importantly, the quality of the new jobs being created. However, just like 99% of the general public, and all of the mainstream media, has an inborn genetic disorder preventing it from grasping the distinction between nominal and real, so these two critical aspects of the US jobs market languished unperturbed. Until now, two years later, when we are happy to see that the mainstream media has finally caught up with what our readers knew in December 2010.